The launcher seems to be behaving now. I was able to log in tonight.And all my old settings are back. The only problem I have is how, last night, I went about updating my overview and everything. Now that the old settings are back, I had to do it again to the latest settings.

Goddammit. Everytime I leave high-sec in this game I just want to internet punch people in the face. I thought I'd try ratting, running missions in my raven is getting a little boring. Found a couple brass gurista tags woo! Then some asshat in a t3 ship shows up. And I and my drones were kicking his ass. I don't know anyhting about t3 ships (he had a proteus) but I would have thought my raven with its 400 DPS would be quick work for them? But he had friends that he called in once he realized his shield was going to crack before mine was even halfway gone. Bah!

I've been playing again for maybe two weeks? I think that's raven #4?

Goddammit. I wish I knew how to gank people. I want to kill this guy. Also, the align time on the Raven is abjectly terrible. He warped in at 31km and I had already started warping. He was still able to scramble me before my ship aligned and warped.

I also do not know how to Gank, but I do know T3's should not be messed with in most situations. They can have Battleship sized tanks and some can have Battleship sized Ganks.

Edit: In other news, I caved and bought a Damnation. I am just now finishing up training for the T1 Warfare Link Modules, but I was curious, is it normal to do such low DPS with T2 HMLs? And is it normal to not be able to do much damage to frigates even with T2 Precisions? Would HAM's be better?

My Goal with this ship (Other than just sitting there looking like a badass.) is to replace my Paladin in the Alliance L4's we run. My Paladin is getting stale and I wanted something new. I am envisioning this ship flying in (looking like a badass) and while the fleet is busy knocking down objectives I want to provide massive armor boosts and to help to drop the smaller ships they might not be able to hit with Battleship sized weapons.

Hate to break it to you, but if you almost broke his shields you were doing really badly as a Proteus isn't a shield tanked ship.

A Raven with only 400DPS is really poor, I get more DPS out of T1 cruiser.

Tip for the future, don't take a battleship to rat in lowsec, a t1 cruiser will do, it will also cost less for when you lose it and you will lose it because in lowsec there are pirates who make a living off your loot and your tears when inevitably they catch you

The launcher seems to be behaving now. I was able to log in tonight.And all my old settings are back. The only problem I have is how, last night, I went about updating my overview and everything. Now that the old settings are back, I had to do it again to the latest settings.

Now take back all those mean things you said about CCP Honestly I like the new launcher because it actually gives you an indication that, yes, you already pushed the yellow button. Don't know how many times I pushed it twice, not remembering and then got two instances of the game running. Or how many times I sat pondering the button, trying to decide if I'd pushed it or not.

Hate to break it to you, but if you almost broke his shields you were doing really badly as a Proteus isn't a shield tanked ship.

A Raven with only 400DPS is really poor, I get more DPS out of T1 cruiser.

Tip for the future, don't take a battleship to rat in lowsec, a t1 cruiser will do, it will also cost less for when you lose it and you will lose it because in lowsec there are pirates who make a living off your loot and your tears when inevitably they catch you

Yeah, I have a lot of skills at 3 or 4 that need to be higher, and I've remapped to per/will to hopefully make it go faster. However I haven't seen any fits for a regular old t1 raven that go too much above 400. I should mess around with EveMon or whatever the tool is more I guess. Do you need faction gear to get that high?

When you say t1 cruiser, so... like a caracal? It can really get that high? Fuck I am doing Eve wrong lol.

So, I resubbed about a month ago after a one year absence, but realized I don't really have the time (or inclination) anymore. So, I unsubbed again. I have a couple of months left. I'm thinking about giving away my stuff to make it more likely for me to win for good this time.

I wonder if it would be better to sell my char and get some iskies, then give those iskies away too.

I went to NOL for a bit and talked in local whilst fleets were forming up. Sounds like TEST had a huge advantage and got owned. That said, also sounds like they had spies/retards in fleet that bubbled blues.

I'm having some weird red-teal tinted 3d areas issues with the latest NVidia drivers. It's annoying. It's like there is a red to teal gradient overlaid on top of the entire non-HUD section of the game.

Looks kinda neat! If you haven't fixed it I guess turning your shaders down makes it go away.

"NVIDIA just released new WHQL drivers 320.18 - In a hilarious sense of irony considering CCP has religiously slobbered all over NVIDIA in the recent years, these drivers ridiculously screw up EVE Online and create a hilarious cyan hue on everything. There is a temporary fix should you want to upgrade to these drivers. Go into the options and drop the shaders down from high to medium. If you're one of the filthy poors that probably had it on medium to begin with or lower, on your sweet Packard Bell pentium 1 with a voodoo3 AGP video card then disregard this broadcast."

I didn't hear too much, but I basically heard TEST didn't do so well and never really held the field.I also heard someone think there was spy business going on. That doesn't surprise me. Bigger stakes here, so there are bound to be spies about.

I didn't hear that TEST had the advantage, though. However, they did manage to rep the hub so they can fight another day.

Why is everyone suddenly so big on attacking TEST? Is it because of the moons it holds? Is it because it pulled out of the HBC and now it seems more vulnerable?I heard Mittens can't seem to get over his love-hate thing with Montolio and keeps talking about him, even though Monty isn't TEST leader anymore.

I didn't hear too much, but I basically heard TEST didn't do so well and never really held the field.I also heard someone think there was spy business going on. That doesn't surprise me. Bigger stakes here, so there are bound to be spies about.

I didn't hear that TEST had the advantage, though. However, they did manage to rep the hub so they can fight another day.

Why is everyone suddenly so big on attacking TEST? Is it because of the moons it holds? Is it because it pulled out of the HBC and now it seems more vulnerable?I heard Mittens can't seem to get over his love-hate thing with Montolio and keeps talking about him, even though Monty isn't TEST leader anymore.

goons hold grudges forever, this isn't a new thing

if you piss them off once they will shit down your throat until they're bored of it, mittens is pissed about montolio because goons essentially were to test what red alliance was to goons and gave them a ton of support when they first entered the game

It is pretty simple: 0.0 alliances need a target to shoot. All this BS about internet spaceship nerd rage and relationships is just a side show. At the end of the day, a 0.0 alliance that doesn't keep fighting constantly will either fall apart or get steam rolled by an alliance that does.

Personally, I wouldn't have it any other way.

BONUS: I saw at least one former ARSED director currently in PL (not named Lenid) in 1-SMEB last night.

That said, there does appear to be a faction within test that doesn't like goons and is quite vocal about it. When/if test is made up mostly of peeps who don't want to be friendly with goons, goons won't have any reason to keep being pals, either. As far as I can tell, the cool peeps we DO like and that like us are moving along to PL or blue corps within the CFC. There may be a time when test isn't the test we knew or whatever.

It's also important to keep perspective - goonswarm federation is not currently in delve shooting test. TWO (2) - squadrons are deployed there looking for fun fights. If GSF were in delve, we'd have NOL already. We aren't coming for your space, promise. I can't speak for NC. or PL, however. They may find it hilarious to blow up your iHubs.

That said, there does appear to be a faction within test that doesn't like goons and is quite vocal about it. When/if test is made up mostly of peeps who don't want to be friendly with goons, goons won't have any reason to keep being pals, either. As far as I can tell, the cool peeps we DO like and that like us are moving along to PL or blue corps within the CFC. There may be a time when test isn't the test we knew or whatever.

It's also important to keep perspective - goonswarm federation is not currently in delve shooting test. TWO (2) - squadrons are deployed there looking for fun fights. If GSF were in delve, we'd have NOL already. We aren't coming for your space, promise. I can't speak for NC. or PL, however. They may find it hilarious to blow up your iHubs.

So people (aka. cool TEST) are changing sides to the more than likely winning side? How human of them

It's also important to keep perspective - goonswarm federation is not currently in delve shooting test. TWO (2) - squadrons are deployed there looking for fun fights. If GSF were in delve, we'd have NOL already. We aren't coming for your space, promise. I can't speak for NC. or PL, however. They may find it hilarious to blow up your iHubs.

That may be your perspective. No doubt goons could take TEST space if you jumped in en mass.

Having said that, your two squads have deployed to dogpile on TEST with the other 5 alliances in 1-SMEB. Goons may not be shooting structure, but you sure are helping terribad people do it.

So people (aka. cool TEST) are changing sides to the more than likely winning side? How human of them

Not sure I would put it this way. If the test culture changes to be anti-goons (which is totally fine, btw) - there are undoubtedly some pilots who won't be jazzed and may seek to remain aligned with people they like. That's it. I don't think I could call it 'winning' as it is really unlikely that there would be a CFC v Test war. We don't really want test space and test has no credible ability to threaten deklein.

Just shooting non-blues and stuff doesn't exactly count.

To continue my eve-blog: I think I'm going to sell my Aeon and buy a Rev + Archon and do stupid things with them. Also, using a super to pop FSPs is a pain given the reduced jump range. I do, however, love the giant gas tank on it. I can jump around all night and just refuel at the end. It's a bit tighter with the carrier. In the interet of not removing a loot pinata from Eve: I'll be using my Aeon fittings and implants in my Archon.

I went to NOL for a bit and talked in local whilst fleets were forming up. Sounds like TEST had a huge advantage and got owned. That said, also sounds like they had spies/retards in fleet that bubbled blues.

Spais? Yeah... always spais. BubbleGate2013 was simply a bro that was doing what he was told to do (bubble carriers to protect from bombers) but didn't hear the "STOP BUBBLING CARRIERS" command so they could o7. Mistakes were made...

As for the fight proper... if you take out the OMGWTFBOMBOMBOMB run that took out 150 rokhs in a minute's time TEST did pretty well. We had multiple different doctrines (Rokh, AHAC, Slowcat) that actually were working well together and holding their own against (technologically, not numerically) superior numbers.

All in all, IHUB was repped (thanks suicide triage bros!) even though it was reinforced back again to ensure another fight in 2 days.

So I've been thinking about getting back into and noodling around a bit with Eve after not having played since 2006-2008 or so. Some of the recent news covering fan-fest sort of piqued my interest.

1) Are there any handy resources, short of reading ALL the patch notes, that cover ongoing significant changes to the game? I heard they've revamped exploration/probes in some fashion, and just poking around in game I'm seeing improvements like an agent finder and the skill queue. Not to mention I have a million skillpoints ready to be applied instantly for some reason? But it would be nice to look at a digest.

2) I'm kind of not interested in pvp gangs or combat in general, and am much more interested in mining and industry. Is there any real niche to fill in that regard in nullsec, particularly for either of the Ars Corps. Are there even 2 anymore or just ED?

3) I have around 150 mods and some ships in AZN, FAT-6P, and V2-VC2. Presumably I'm about 6 years too late to collect any of that stuff? If I train up the right skill can I try to liquidate them remotely with sell orders/auctions?

So I've been thinking about getting back into and noodling around a bit with Eve after not having played since 2006-2008 or so.

Wow, welcome back!

To answer some of your questions:

1) There's no single place that I'm aware of. If you haven't played since 2008, almost everything has changed.2) ARSED (0.0 corp) and EXCO (Highsec corp) are still around. They're not as busy as they used to be, but they're still here. There's definitely room for mining and industry in nullsec. It is harder to do (e.g. tanking rats in 0.0 requires effort for a miner), but the rewards are much higher especially with the upcoming Odyssey patch.3) I would probably train the Contracts skill up a couple levels then liquidate all your remote assets through firesale contracts. Creating a sell order remotely is constrained to a single region, so you'd have to fly all over the place to be able to create sell orders for your stuff (much less maintain your sell orders).

Yeah, the who is shooting who changes each day. If the test culture changes to be anti-goons (which is totally fine, btw) - there are undoubtedly some pilots who won't be jazzed and may seek to remain aligned with people they like. That's it. I don't think I could call it 'winning' as it is really unlikely that there would be a CFC v Test war. We don't really want test space and test has no credible ability to threaten deklein.

I'm sure as hell not jazzed about it. Not one bit. Inviting boatloads of anti-goons into the alliance and coalition kinda ticked me off and I barely moved a ship down to Delve to help before I stopped playing.

The calls to reset test don't seem as loud as they were not long ago but it may only take test doing something monumentally stupid, as they are wont to do, to turn the goodfites into a fiery purge.

I'm sure as hell not jazzed about it. Not one bit. Inviting boatloads of anti-goons into the alliance and coalition kinda ticked me off and I barely moved a ship down to Delve to help before I stopped playing.

I know, it is crazy, right? Next thing you know, Goons will be blue with .EXE and neutral to RA. After that, you're going to tell me that down is up, and left is ... purple!

Raiden. is pretty terrible. The only reason I can tell that they're blue with TEST is they were the only half-decent candidate alliance that may be able to hold Delve's flank. I still question the "half-decent" part. vOv

I can understand TEST not wanting to always look to Goons for help. It can be stifling in the "mother looking out for child" sort of way. Also, I can't help but wonder if Mittens would be more than happy to try and tell TEST what to do, just as Sort Dragon tried to tell TEST they HAD to attack Nulli Secunda even though they didn't want to. Mittens does have a pretty big ego and the Goons to back it up. They seem to love him, so he gets what he wants.

Also, I think TEST probably got a little full of itself after fighting -A-. Having an alliance like that cower in their stations when the full might of the HBC (not TEST, necessarily, mind you) is undocked and waiting to shoot you probably makes you feel powerful. But now that PL is doing their own thing, (and let's not forget that PL was basically the supercap force of the HBC and added a LOT of power to what Montolio could do) TEST doesn't have the power it used to.

I'm not sure what happened to Montolio, exactly. Mittens painted him as being an unhinged child. Whether that's true or not, I don't know. I'm not inclined to believe everything Mittens said, especially since he prides himself on being a "spymaster" which means every other word out of his mouth, by necessity, is a lie. I think BoodaBooda is trying to satisfy TEST demands for good fights and a desire to remain independant of people like Sort Dragon. I don't really understand the group in TEST that wants to fight Goons. If it were only to stimulate good fights, then I'm ok with that. But some seem to actually want to try and cut Goonswarm apart, and that's not happening.

I doubt TEST leadership will want to ask Goons for help. It would make them feel like TEST isn't a grown-up and can't handle itself. I think breaking relations with Goons was stupid. Alas, I'm not in charge (thank god!) so I don't have a say over that.